Isaiah 30:8-14

Revised Standard Version

⁸ And now, go, write it before them on a tablet,
    and inscribe it in a book,
that it may be for the time to come
    as a witness for ever.
⁹ For they are a rebellious people,
    lying sons,
sons who will not hear
    the instruction of the Lord;
¹⁰ who say to the seers, “See not”;
    and to the prophets, “Prophesy not to us what is right;
speak to us smooth things,
    prophesy illusions,
¹¹ leave the way, turn aside from the path,
    let us hear no more of the Holy One of Israel.”
¹² Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel,
“Because you despise this word,
    and trust in oppression and perverseness,
    and rely on them;
¹³ therefore this iniquity shall be to you
    like a break in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse,
    whose crash comes suddenly, in an instant;
¹⁴ and its breaking is like that of a potter’s vessel
    which is smashed so ruthlessly
that among its fragments not a sherd is found
    with which to take fire from the hearth,
    or to dip up water out of the cistern.”